*Teaching philosophy in a [minors'] prison has shown me the meaning of anger.* It's a side issue, but please don't refer to 15-year-olds as "children". They are teenagers -- adolescents.

Sweden is planning to kill half of its small wolf population. The population is already so small that that will put its genetic health in danger.

Global heating directly increases gun violence, in the US at least. Shooting deaths are more frequent during heat waves.

Robert Reich: *Republicans fight over speaker of the House -- but whoever wins, the party loses.*

Spain is pushing to reduce the enormous environmental impact of discarded cigarette butts, which nowadays are made of plastic.